Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Wednesday asked the Hungarian government to amend a textbook for eighth-graders that appears to portray Ukraine’s war as a civil war, Telex and hvg.hu reported.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demands the immediate correction of false information about Ukraine in geography textbooks for Hungarian 8th graders,” Oleg Nikolenko, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv, told “Interfax-Ukraine”.
The official said that Ukrainian diplomats in Budapest went to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday to discuss the geography textbook, proving to their Hungarian colleagues that the part of the textbook about Ukraine was unacceptable because it presented distorted facts about the country.
During the meeting, they demanded that false information in the manual be corrected.
What the incriminated guide to Ukraine contains
According to Hungarian Telex journalists, the textbook, available on the public portal of the Ministry of Education in Budapest, appears to present the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 as a civilian one:
“The distribution of nationalities in Ukraine is very uneven. The majority are Ukrainians by nationality, but in the eastern part of the country there is a significant share of Russians, and on the Crimean peninsula they make up the majority. Two Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian) are similar. In the Russian-populated parts of the country, a fifth of the population speaks a mixed Russian-Ukrainian language. Despite this, the two ethnic groups are often at odds with each other. Their opposition also provoked an armed conflict on the Crimean peninsula.”
The text is accompanied by a caricature that Russia, the United States, and the European Union are each pulling Ukraine in their own direction.
PHOTO: Portal of the Ministry of Education of Hungary
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